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…certain right-wing rebels against the international order, particularly in Europe. This is awkward for him and for them, since, unlike Atatürk, Putin has no programmatic ideology. Losing Vladimir Putin in…

…Putin isn’t a complete idiot, anything he does fits this “rule.” Next, Altman notes that Putin is applying the maxim that one must “change the status quo.” If Putin doesn’t…

…reaction of some conservatives to Putin’s December speech has been positive, if not affirming. Putin’s call to return to traditional values and scorn for elites who willfully promote “abortion on…

…Putin and his efforts around the world. But action alone is not sufficient to handle Putin. Prestige in global politics matters; perception matters. Putin thrives on the prestige accorded to…

…late. Could Putin have been stopped? “To prevent Putin,” Kasparov writes, “or a Putin, from coming to power, the 1990s would have required a very different script with less appeasement…

…caucus will get a boost from Putin’s decision to pause as he digests Crimea. Putin may be irrational, but he’s not crazy. He has a good intuitive sense for how…

…6 is about as Putin as it gets.) The war on Putin is driven by two factors dear to the modern left. First, Putin opposes their aims in Ukraine. That…

…Buchanan has said Putin is America’s ally against ISIS. No, Putin Is Not Atatürk This benign view of Putin has begun to creep into mainstream conservatism, not just because of…

Over the last six years, we have seen what an emboldened Vladimir Putin is willing to do with his military forces. In the George W. Bush years, Putin shrewdly played…

…someone quite hostile to Putin, terms “a xenophobic conspiracy theory” about Moscow’s role in Mr. Trump’s election. Zakaria quotes Ioffe, also a strong Putin detractor, to demonstrate Putin’s power and…

…about as far as you can reasonably go in praising the effectiveness of Putin’s policy, though I find him a little too interested in using Putin to score points against…

…but the interests of the corrupt power structure of which Putin is the head.) So Putin is not actually praising Trump because he thinks he would be a good leader….

…the heart of Putin’s revanchist message. It is, after all, consistent with what he has been saying for years now. Consider something Putin said back in 2005 about the break-up…

…do anything substantive to deter further aggression. Putin’s Quiet War Buoyed by this appeasement and weakness, Putin took the next bold step of exporting an ethnic Russian uprising in eastern…

…Putin. Trump has declined to criticize Putin publicly; has arguably undermined Euro-Atlantic solidarity by squabbling with America’s allies and labeling the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) obsolete; has seemed at…

…and much more to do with trying to sow chaos and confusion in the democratic countries that oppose Putin’s aggression. Putin’s Running an Agitprop Campaign Putin doesn’t really care who…

…this to Vladimir Putin, who has spent his time assembling a massive buildup of Russian troops, tanks, and helicopters on the Ukrainian border. Here is a rundown of all the…

…one U.S. leader Putin fears. He has already established a reputation with Putin that he is not to be messed with and won’t shy away from a “mano-a-mano” battle with…

…any reason to delude themselves that Putin’s assistance will take them any farther toward their own objectives than is absolutely necessary for Putin to achieve his own. Putin’s objectives are…

…intelligence agencies think it’s Russia. I have President Putin — he just said it’s not Russia. I don’t see any reason why it would be.” Putin, for his part, magnanimously…

…the current crisis in Ukraine: the Putin regime in Russia. War is definitely the health of Putin’s state. We’ve been focused on Putin’s ambitions abroad, his attempt to reconstitute a…

Russian President Vladimir Putin is well on the way to securing what had been western Syria for whatever dependent Putin might choose. He has been supporting Syrian President Bashar al…

…class. Well, if you’re a fan of an unaccountable plutocrats, you’ll love Putin’s Russia. What @realDonaldTrump admires about Putin is the way Putin–unlike someone else we know–LOVES his country &…

…“fawning praise for autocrats” include Tucker Carlson telling his audience to ask, “Why do I hate Putin so much?”; former President Trump referring to Putin as “smart” and “savvy”; and…

…course, Putin didn’t much have to worry about a vigorous, independent press to put forward a counter-narrative. Since Putin’s ascent to power in 1999, some 43 journalists or media workers…

…history to serve Putin his comeuppance. To be fair, in this instance, the administration at least implemented a sanctions regime to nudge history along a bit. But Putin hasn’t folded…

…Putin had personally decided to help Donald Trump defeat Hillary Clinton, then unleashed Russia’s legendary intelligence services to make it happen. What’s laughable is the assumption that Putin is laughing…

…home, protests against Putin’s war are growing bolder in Russia. Putin needs friends. China has distanced itself. Kazakhstan denied Putin’s request for forces. And now Putin is pressuring his Belarusian…

…does not. That is why, to borrow from Lenin, Kerry acts as Putin’s useful climate idiot. Putin’s invasion of Ukraine plunges the world into its gravest emergency since the Cuban…

…that’s our problem, not Putin’s. By contrast, Putin’s first interest is to prop up the Assad regime. He is in the business of building up spheres of influence. The Assad…

The invasion of Ukraine by the armed forces of Russia at Russian President Vladimir Putin’s orders marks the first time since 1945 that Russia has engaged in a conventional war…

…production, Putin could not today be blackmailing Poland and Bulgaria by cutting off their energy supply. Had America allowed more investment in fracking and other energy production, Putin would not…

…serving hard alcohol to hockey fans is a baaaddd idea — and I quickly deduced that Ivan Provorov is Russian. You know who else is Russian? Voldemort Putin, that’s who….

…better position to fight it. The disaster that is distinctive to the Obama era is the re-animation of a global ideological conflict between freedom and dictatorship. Vladimir Putin has been…

…television interview with Vladimir Putin to ask whether Russia engages in mass surveillance of its citizens. Putin said no — though it’s telling that the main reason he gave was…

Russian President Vladimir Putin has proffered, as one of his rationales for invading Ukraine, the need to “de-Nazify” the nation. Russian propaganda, some people sympathetic to it, and others perhaps…